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Self-Regulation has long been seen as a desirable but difficult to achieve instructional aim. This is particularly true of on-line learning, where users have limited instructional support and where attrition rates tend to be greater than in face...

Definitions of literature are evolving to embody a wider range of cultural practices which can include interactive multimedia (IMM). Also the study of literature is undergoing a philosophical change, where traditional notions of literature as...

Increasingly, universities are being asked by industry, government and funding authorities to help prepare students for industry with appropriate professional and life long learning skills. How can tertiary educators design and implement learning...

As educational research moves towards more interpretive paradigms, approaches need to be identified that accommodate the exploratory nature of such research, while maintaining rigorous approaches to data collection and analysis. This paper proposes...

This paper examines how to teach Cognitive Self-Regulation. Approaches to enhancing Metacognition are discussed and a model for metacognitive regulation is presented. A strategy of reciprocal teaching is advocated for the development of...

In the rush towards web-based learning, courseware management tools are being promoted as a means of simplifying the creation and management of instructional websites. This paper examines such claims in the light of a unit in Project Management...

Over time, strategies have evolved from learning theory that aim to ensure learning takes place within a given situation. While such strategies are well understood within the context of traditional classroom teaching, and to a certain, if lesser, ...

This paper describes an on-line approach to assessment through student contracts that was designed to both address issues of fairness of assessment as well as to promote the planning, monitoring and evaluation integral to enhancing metacognition...

Teamwork skills and the ability to effectively collaborate with peers continue to be hailed as essential skills by employers and higher education funding authorities, and many employers require new graduates to demonstrate theses skills as part of...

By its nature metacognition is hard to define, hard to measure and by all the evidence, hard to teach. Arguably then, an online instrument to help students review their own metacognitive development would be welcome if it could be proved valid and...

Teamwork skills and the ability to effectively collaborate with peers continue to be hailed as essential skills by employers and higher education funding authorities, and many employers require new graduates to demonstrate these skills as part of...

One variable that is constant in educational technology research is that it is constantly changing. Online courses customised learning tools, media delivery systems and new pedagogies that might prove useful in advancing student learning spring up...

One of the driving forces behind the design and implementation of serious games is the claim that games have the potential to make learning more engaging than traditional e-learning or classroom-based activities. However, in order to develop...

The authors of this paper have been developing an online metacognitive tool over the past four years through a process of iterative design and development stages using Design-Based research. Based on feedback from students, tutors and peers, the...

Today’s students are referred to as ‘digital natives’. But what does it mean to be digitally native? How does the digital nativeness affect the way student learn and we teach? This paper examines the key characteristics of Millennial students, and...

Student engagement is often considered one of the most important determinants of successful learning. An often cited argument for games in learning is their value to be ‘immersive’. Beyond the rhetoric however, a model needs to be developed of...

Supervisor training for postgraduate research candidates has been recognised as a priority area by the Australian Government and institutional quality auditing agencies for many years. The need for increased Doctoral completions to help bolster the...

Games are often seen as a means of enhancing motivation in learning. Despite the rhetoric, however, games that provide quality experiences for learners are hard to find. One reasoning is the focus on the game medium without a clear understanding of...